During WW2, captured German officers were sent to Britain as POWs and lived in luxury in Trent Park. This was done to make them feel relaxed. However, they were being listened to by 100 ‘listeners’. They revealed secrets about the holocaust, events in Berlin, Hitler's madness and V2 rocket bases.
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The Statue of Liberty was a gift of friendship resulting from the diplomatic relationship between the United States and France.
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Originally, Du Pont, Inc. was a tiny gun powder mill in New Jersey.
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The great wall of China is 1,400 miles long!
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Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian; she was Greek.
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Pierre Jaquet-Droz, a watchmaker, 240 years ago invented a robot that could write, and the parts could be interchanged to say whatever you want.
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The handbook issued to US soldiers in Britain during WW2 included the line "The British don't know how to make a good cup of coffee. You don't know how to make a good cup of tea. It's an even swap."
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